MOTHER JONES DAILY: ( WEIRD* ) JD Vance’s Child-Voting “Experiment” Would Be Great—for Democrats, RFK Jr. admits he falls for online misinformation “all the time” , Talking to a former madam about using AI and big data to help RFK Jr., The EPA is enacting a historic pesticide ban, The original president: How the nuclear bomb changed executive power, For LGBTQ veterans, White House pardons still fall short 15AUG24

 ( WEIRD* ) NOT part of the title of the Mother Jones article, I added it because fascist jd vance IS weird. 

August 15, 2024 What would happen if—as former President Donald Trump's running mate Sen. JD Vance has suggested—parents of minors actually got more votes than other people?   That's a question my colleague Michael Mechanic tried to answer in his new piece about Vance's so-called thought experiment, one of Vance's many statements that have recently garnered controversy for appearing to privilege Americans with kids over those without. And as Michael writes, when you actually do this thought experiment, you get some interesting results. Long story short: It'd probably be great for Democrats! That's mainly because they're the party typically favored by the majority of nonwhite voters, and, as Michael writes, "America’s youth, and their parents, are more ethnically diverse than the broader population."  But there are many questions that would have to be answered before this (likely unconstitutional) "thought experiment" could ever become reality. Michael posed a few in his piece:  Who gets the extra votes if there’s an odd number of kids and/or the parents are estranged or have opposing views? Who votes on behalf of stepkids—do they count? Adoptees? How about kids living with their grandparents? Noncitizen parents? Parents with green cards? Could undocumented parents vote on behalf of US-born offspring? And how would you verify all of it? And think about it: Would Republicans, the party of minority rule, actually be willing to answer those questions? It's doubtful. As William H. Frey, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and census expert, told Michael, "They accuse everybody of voter fraud if they just do normal voting. What happens if they do this kind of thing?" Great question. Make sure to check out Michael's full piece to run Vance's "thought experiment" yourself.  —Julianne McShane

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PROJECT 2025 should scare everyone, including drumpf / trump-vance supporters. If they think they will not suffer if project 2025 is implemented they are deluding themselves and are in for a rude surprise. We still have time to fight back. Support the Harris-Walz campaign with your time and talents and whatever you can afford to donate. Sign on to join the ACLU's campaign to stop project 2025 from ever being imposed on our democratic Republic, click the link. From the ACLU..... 

Project 2025 is weird, yes. But it's also no joke. It's a roadmap for a tyrant. The team that wrote it consists of over 140 former Trump administration officials and lays out a series of invasive and downright harmful proposals to go after our most fundamental rights.Project 2025 threatens our rights, and is rife with proposals that would harm real people. Add your name to join our fight to stop it in its tracks. Project 2025 is a plan to let politicians and bureaucrats control our lives. It lays out a vision of America built on breaking up immigrant families with mass deportations, denying trans people needed medical care, stripping away our right to an abortion and right to medical privacy, punishing dissent and political opposition, and so much more. Take abortion rights, for example. Project 2025 wouldn't stop at sweeping abortion bans – already a devastating prospect. Their proposal goes even further, cutting funding to states that don't report a slew of deeply specific and personal medical details regarding abortion, miscarriage care, pregnancy complications, and reproductive health care in general. That's a massive invasion of privacy, Craig. It is absolutely weird that anyone would want the government having so much information about our personal health. But you know what else it is? Dangerous totalitarianism. Every proposal in the Project 2025 manifesto has this same, disturbing focus – they want to strip away our rights at any cost. That's why we're showing up in force to stop Project 2025 now. Our experts have the strategy to win across every civil liberty issue at stake – but we need you with us. Add your name today to our growing movement dedicated to stop Project 2025 and receive actions to fight back with us. Add Your Name With the full power of the ACLU – backed by you and countless other ACLU supporters, Craig – we know we can stop this threat of tyranny and protect our rights for good. Thanks for joining us in this critical fight, Mike Zamore Pronouns: He, him, his National Director of Policy & Government Affairs, ACLU

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